When you have a leaflet.js application, such as my experimental toy for xkcd GeoHashing (look at geohashing.cgi plus mirkarte.js), you have to draw points all over the world. In the GeoHashing case, ...

I'd like to build a list of popular points of interest and tourist attractions for many/every city in the world. Is there any sort of dataset that I can use for this which either contains only popular ...

I am looking for a good app that can do one or many of my below listed requirements. They are listed with the most fundamental functions first. Preferably the app can do all of it, but it should at ...

I extracted both nodes and ways from OpenStreetMap in PostgreSQL with Osmosis. I'm looking for all restaurants in a given area. The issue is that some of them are coded in OSM as nodes and others as ...

We have a list of poi data in our database(Access mdb db), and we have a web service which serve data by a specified BoundingBox.
However we found that the returned points are too close to another at ...

I am looking for an open source offline software to record points of interest that I might visit at a later date.
Let's say I am reading a book about Alaska, I'd like to take notes about interesting ...

I need to find the coordinates of all the interstate exits for some research. I'm not looking to code up a program that will do it for me, but I was hoping that someone had already done it and would ...

I'm working on a project for which most data can come straight from OSM. But some data is not relevant to OSM and will need to be stored separately then layered over the top. Probably the tiles will ...

I am just starting an Intro GIS course, so I really have no idea what the best place is to find downloadable GIS data. I was really hoping to do my semester project on library or bookstore locations ...

Title says it all: looking for icons for famous landmarks in Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Louvre, Notre Dame. These should do. For other poi's I have general category-icons, but ...

There are a few poi that I can see on Josm that are not rendered to the final map. OSM database contains them at least for some month. I can' figure out why the doesn't appear on the map.
Example poi ...

Imagine a table of points of interest along with lat/long. The user identifies two of these points. I want to do the following:
Calculate a great-circle path between these points
Find all POIs that ...

I am trying to improve OpenStreetMap in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
A way I am doing this is to add temple locations. I hear that there is a dataset of temple locations available from Wikipedia (presumably ...

I've dropped a point and then selected a svg icon. But now I'm right next to the other points I want to label. Now you have the svg icon, but be on the label, that is, the label may no longer be seen. ...

Want to get the data out of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm
UPDATE: i just come back from the site http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm
which has got some files that belong to ...

I'm brand new to GIS programming and I am designing a GIS application. Target is to create system with continents, countries, regions (including states, sub-regions, provinces), cities and places in ...

I'm implementing alghorithm to search POI near the route (array of Lat, Long points).
My problem is that I don't know how to calculate distance beetween line segment and POI.
Look at picture that I ...

SimpleGeo has recently made their "Places" data set freely available which is GREAT, because now we can use it for our own purposes, even offline. So I went about downloading the 2GB dataset, which ...